Lee Van Cleef

He also appeared as a villainous swindler in the Bonanza episode, The Bloodline (December 31, 1960). His sons, Paul and Pádraig, work as a producer with RTÉ and in computers, respectively. Van Cleef also appeared in John Carpenter's cult hit Escape from New York. His four daughters, Niamh, Sorcha, Sinéad and Catherine are actresses. He appeared with Clint Eastwood in For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Cusack's last stage performance was in Chekhov's The Three Sisters, in which three of his daughters played the sisters. His first film was the classic Western High Noon, in which he played a villain. In 1989 his performance in the film My Left Foot, with Daniel Day-Lewis, contributed to its success.

Van Cleef served in the United States Navy during World War II and became an actor after a brief career as an accountant. In 1984 he appeared as the shop-keeper and Thought Police spy Charrington in the film version of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. However, Van Cleef occasionally played heroes. He received honorary doctorates in 1977 and 1980 from the NUI and the University of Dublin respectively. His sharp features and piercing eyes made him an ideal "bad guy". Two years later in 1979 he married Mary Rose Cunningham. Lee Van Cleef (January 9, 1925 - December 16, 1989) was a movie actor, who appeared mostly in Western and action pictures. In 1977 Cusack's wife, Maureen Kiely, an actress, died.

By this stage he had established a successful career in films. In 1963 he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in London and appeared there for several seasons. In 1947 Cusack formed his own company and staged productions in Dublin, Paris and New York City. Between then and 1945 he performed in over sixty productions, particularly excelling in the plays of Sean O'Casey.

He left without a degree and joined the Abbey Theatre in 1932. Cusack was educated in Newbridge, Kildare, and University College, Dublin. Cyril made his first stage performance at the age of seven. Cusack's mother and her partner, Breifne O'Rorke, joined the O'Brien and Ireland Players.

His parents separated when he was young and his mother took him to England, and then to Ireland. He was the son of a sergeant in the mounted police and an actress. Cyril Cusack (26 November 1910 - 7 October 1993) was an Irish actor, born in Natal, South Africa.